RE: Strong Atheism starts from faith
February 9, 2010 at 5:43 pm
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2010 at 5:43 pm by fr0d0.)
(February 9, 2010 at 5:20 pm)theVOID Wrote: That's nonsense Fr0d0, it would be entirely possible to have conclusive evidence for the existence of God and still be religious by observing the practices and rituals and following the rules of the religion. You would also still be required to have faith in the actions of this God, such as believing that suffering such as natural disasters and poverty are necessary as opposed to him getting off on our suffering as if it's a big cosmic stage show and he's sitting back with popcorn.
Faith is only core to religious belief because they have nothing else, there is no valid logical argument or empirical evidence, but that does not mean by default that there cannot be evidence for God.
Though if you disagree I would like to hear why.
You're talking about a fantasy god that doesn't feature in any religion VOID. That's nice and naive, but this is the rational world where we consider rational notions. Yours is no where near a rational notion.
In the real world, with real understanding, we know that God cannot be verified.
Additionally you propose a god we don't know yet. This isn't anything any theist here is talking about either. Yes there are infinite possibilities of anything yet unknown to us existing. The Christian God isn't one of these.